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“Speaking”

‘Thoughts’

Chapter 49: Air to No Air

“Give me a status report.” Blitz says loudly entering the bridge.

Spike raises an eyebrow as he looks at him as he shows a datapad. “Well, everything is loaded and all the fighters and bombers are ready to launch as soon as we exit hyperspace.” Spike says.

Blitz nods as he stands near him. “So how’s the time up here been going? Not too lonely?”

“It has been long and tedious.” Spike says.

“But now it is worth it.” Ridley says from his seat.

Spike chuckles. “That’s because you got our bounty hunter coming in from time to time.”

“That and because now, we get to launch our attack.” Ridley says excited.

They both shake their heads at him. “He has been itching to fight in some time. How’s Twilight and the others?” Spike asks.

“They are disappointed they can’t come along for this first wave assault, but understand when I explained this opening move is a lightning strike attack.” Blitz says.

Spike sighs. “What do you expect? They want to be with you and of course they want to come anywhere where you are. You know some of them have fighting experience. Some.”

“Not like this.” Lightning says watching the clock count down till it hits zero. “Commence operations. All ships warp on my mark!” Blitz orders on all of the communication channels.

Spike sighs as he straps himself in his seat with Ridley and Blitz following. “Let’s get this done.”

“Mark!” Lightning orders before all twelve ships went into hyperspace.

“Good luck my love.” Rainbow says watching the ships warp out from the recently competed space station.

Twilight smiles as she stands by her with everypony else and the foals on their backs. “He’ll be back. He’s too stubborn for his own good.”

“So are they still arguing about the name of our world’s first space station?” Rarity asks as Diamond and Night were blown away by the site.

Twilight huffs. “Yes, nopony down on the planet knows what to call it. There is still a major vote on the most popular names right now.”

“What about naming it after our planet?” Spitfire asks sitting on a bench resting with the other pregnant mares.

Twilight hums. “Maybe. We haven’t had a real planet name in a long time. Satellite one to end of it or change it to fit the name with it.” She thought out loud.

“Didn’t they have a name for our planet in the galaxy?” Lightning says still not happy her pregnancy forced her to stay behind.

Twilight scratches her head. “Can’t remember.” She said while Rainbow looks it up on her omnitool.

“Really, our planet is named Equine 2 after one of the inhabitants of the planet.” Rainbow says reading the data log entry on it.

Twilight leans over. “Oh yeah. It is. So maybe Equine Star?” She offered. “E-Star? Eq-Star?”

Rainbow, Blast, Spectrum, and Arcane rolls their eyes at her ways. “Give them the suggestions and we’ll see where it goes.” Rainbow said typing it all up and gave her the file.

“It’s a stupid name, we should come up with a better name.” Soarin says.

Arcane was messing with his own mini tablet. “Equality Star?” He offered.

“Oh Arcane.” Twilight says happily before hugging him.

Arcane giggles and nuzzles her while hugging her back.

Fluttershy smiles as she carefully walks. “Let’s get back down home. I’m sure we got many things to do.”

Twilight nods as she keeps nuzzling Arcane. “Yeah, let’s go. I’m sure some of you are tired.” She said looking to Shadow snoring on her back on a bench.

They all laugh as Shadow snorts. A heavy whine came from the outside and they saw another small ship move fast and past the blockade before hyperspacing where the fleet went.

Spike sighs as he tries to read the report. “So…heading to war. Hard to believe it came this fast. Just finish marking our first official place in the universe.”

Blitz nods. “It was inevitable. Though that might be Mandalorian’s fault as we sped up the process.”

“Got the reports.” Scootaloo said, giving Spike the datapad and making Blitz go wide eyed.

Blitz keeps staring as Spike smiles at the report. “Spike? What is she doing here? And are the others here?” He asks carefully.

“They are our assistants, but mostly to him.” Ridley said, his eyes never leaving the window showing hyperspace.

Scootaloo smiles. “Plus we have to keep Spike calm so he can be the best commander he can be.”

“No kissing or anything like that.” Lightning says.

Spike chuckles nervously. “Yeah, it’s sort of their style. It’ll be private, don’t worry.”

“One time and you will have to send them back in accordance with military law.” Lightning says.

Spike sighs. “Fine. Tell the other girls sorry, but I can’t give them that while we’re on business.” He said to Scootaloo who nods and walks away.

“Right.” Lightning says tuning into the senate session through a spy camera.

Both Spike and Ridley leans in. “What’s the bill today?” Ridley asks.

“They are finalizing our defensive treaty.” Lightning says.

“As such, shouldn’t we not ally with the alliance and the mandalorian clans as they wish to help us in fighting the war?” A senator asks.

“But what about the cost?” A trade federation senator asks.

Ahsoka shakes her head as she listens from the hall. “Would never happen fully. They would rather remain partners than full companions. And forgot the cost. Unless you’re a weapons maker, in which case you would still make a profit.” She said to herself.

“Politics snips.” Anakin says.

Ahsoka rolls her eyes. “And brings out the worst in others.”

“Now that’s not nice.” Anakin said, looking at her as she looks back to him with a raised eyebrow. “Okay, that’s partly true.”

“Oh right, you and your girlfriend are in politics.” Ahsoka says getting Anakin back for calling Blitz her boyfriend jokes so many times.

Anakin shakes his head. “She isn’t. She’s just someone in the senate and who can help with legal trouble.”

“Uh huh.” Ahsoka says, smirking.

Anakin keeps shaking his head. “Now be quiet and listen. It will affect our war.”

“Senate members please. We have argued about this for seven days straight, let us end this with a vote.” Senator Chuchi of Pantora says.

“A fine idea.” Palpatine says.

Ahsoka waited withheld breath. ‘This is it. Whether Blitz and the alliance fights with us.’ Ahsoka thinks.

Anakin looks at her. “Nervous?”

“This determines if we get help fighting the droids or not.” Ahsoka says.

Anakin nods. “Yep, plus a chance to see our new friends again. More so maybe for you.”

“Let’s hope they choose to ally and not keep us neutral with them.” Ahsoka says.

Anakin raises an eyebrow. “But they would be a third party and just have to keep someone close to speak to them.”

“Yeah, but what if the seps bribe them with credits if they remain a third party?” Ahsoka points out.

Anakin shrugs. “Then we’re on our own from there on out.”

“And they attack us?” Ahsoka asks.

Anakin raises an eyebrow at her. “You really think they might?”

“It is possible if bribed enough.” Ahsoka says.

Anakin sighs. “Well, let’s just hope they vote yes. Or we’re dead in this long drawn out war.”

“So even you see that another force could determine this war master.” Ahsoka says.

Anakin shakes his head. “No, I just recognize a bigger force that could turn the tide of the war. But then again, we would still have problems even if they say yes. This treaty has them as allies, but still free will to operate as their own. A wild card in the war.”

“Like how Mandalorians are in most wars?” Ahsoka asks having brushed up on the mandalorians’ history since they returned to the temple.

Anakin stares at her carefully. “I should probably restrict your access a bit.”

“A little too late now master.” Ahsoka says, smirking, making Anakin smile.

Anakin chuckles. “I taught you well.”

“The votes are in and the motion is passed by twelve votes, this motion is passed.” Palpatine says as the camera droids broadcast him signing the treaty.

Ahsoka sighs in relief. “Now we just have to give them a few objectives and hope they follow.”

Anakin shrugs. “The only thing we can worry less about is them moving to the other side.”

Ahsoka raises an eyebrow. “Yeah…worry less.”

“And now we can worry more about orders coming in.” Blitz said leaning back in his chair.

Spike sighs. “So what’s first?”

Blitz brings up a star chart. “This. Our first big battle with the republic for once.”

“What about that operation that resulted in the death of Darth Nihilus?” Spike asks.

Blitz grimaces. “We could only hope that they won’t instigate any grudge from both sides. That’s the last thing we need.”

“So what about the fleet sent to take back Pantora? From your mandalorian informants, the jedi leading them is Jedi master Luminara and her padawan, Barriss.” Ridley says reading a report.

Blitz raises an eyebrow. “Huh, sounds like strictly honor bound than most.”

“Also, not one for unorthodox tactics, more along the books kind of leader. Jedi code rules to be precise.” Ridley says as Spike pulls up her file.

“Very well. Communications officer Rush, status on the charge for the silencer.” Blitz says looking at a former royal guard unicorn.

Rush sighs as he looks at the screen. “Fifty percent. Could charge quicker, but we sent almost all power to the engines for the warp.”

Spike shakes his head. “I doubt I could pull the shield trick with those robots again like I did with Ridley here. At least unless one of them goes suicidal.”

“No need.” Blitz says before using his amulet to transform into humanoid form. Upon seeing this, Spike noticed that Blitz’s armor looked slightly modified to have more of the sith from the last great galactic war.

Ridley raises an eyebrow. “Huh, menacing. You hope to scare them to burst their electronics?”

“No, but I did learn from a sith.” Lightning says.

Spike sighs. “Let’s hope we can scare most of them. Maybe send one of them frying their electronics from the sight. Though maybe just send your résumé.” Spike pondered.

“Not possible with droids who lack the ability for they will most likely fight to the end like they are programmed to.” Blitz says.

Ridley smirks a bit. “You mean this programming?” He asks, showing a vid of a droid taking a box before tripping one second later as the others shake their heads. “Yeah, fight to the death.”

“I never said from bravery, more like stupidity.” Blitz says.

Spike chuckles. “Got more?”

“Oh, tons.” Ridley says chuckling.

“Not now you two. We exit hyperspace in less than a minute.” Blitz says.

“General, the Obsidian has been destroyed and Orion and the Sapphire are badly damaged. We can’t break the blockade.” A clone officer reports.

“Understood.” Luminara says before turning back to the jedi council. “I know you heard. I am afraid we will not be able to free the people of Pantora. If we do not flee now, we might lose the entire fleet.” Luminara says in a monotone voice.

“We know. We are sending backup right now. They should be arriving any second now.” Windu said.

Luminara tilts her head. “You found a few republic ships to help in this sector?”

Windu nods. “Yes, we got the reports from them and they finished a mop up in another sector and are able to help.”

“We will try and hold out as long as we can.” Luminara says.

“Understoo…” Yoda suddenly stopped mid-sentence.

They all look at him. “Something wrong master?” Luminara asks.

“I sense a disturbance in the force.” Yoda says.

“General, we have ships dropping out of hyperspace.” The clone officer from earlier calls.

Luminara looks back to the council. “Excuse me. I have to talk to our reinforcements.” She said quickly switching channels. “This is Luminara. Identify.” Luminara says but only receives static on the line.

“I repeat, identify.” Luminara repeats, but still nothing.

Before she could make another attempt at hailing, the Darkline dropped out of hyperspace before the rest of the fleet emerged.

Blitz sighs as he sees the action. “Great. Spike, Ridley, you ready in the ops center?” He asks over the comms.

“Ready.” Spike replies.

“All fighters and bombers, launch!” Blitz orders before launching the Darkstar One.

All the ships launched from the destroyers and starts to follow Blitz as he pilots to the ensuing fight. “Status on the republic ships?” He asks as he tries to figure out a path.

“There is only two instead of the three reported, but the debris tells me where the third ship is.” Ridley says as the Darkline commences attack.

Blitz grunts as he goes up high. “Alright then. Minerva, give me a good bombing run route.”

“Calculating.” Minerva says, hooked up to the Darkstar.

Blitz swerved from oncoming fire. “Calculate faster. We’re coming up now. All ships, stay behind me and follow me exactly and try not to hit over each other’s bomb unless it’s a good spot.”

“Course calculated for the second on the right from the middle.” Minerva says.

Blitz immediately flies over in that direction as the turrets try to hit them and the bombers behind him get in a straight line. “Fighters, give us cover.”

“Roger that.” A pilot says as the fighters engage the vulture droids.

Spike frowns as he keeps watching Blitz’s bombing run. “Who’s the general we are fighting? Droid?”

“No, too good I think.” Ridley says looking through the reports before coming across a spy’s report. “Apparently it is one of Dooku’s so-called dark acolytes.” Ridley says.

Spike looks over. “Who and how good is he?”

“Not a he, a she.” Ridley says, sending Spike the file.

Spike raises an eyebrow and looks it over. “Huh, a former Jedi. This isn’t good.”

“Maybe, maybe not, but she is good.” Ridley says before he and two ships started focusing fire on one of the droid control ships with a barrage of high-grade proton torpedoes.

Spike shakes his head as he keeps looking over the report as the ship starts to blow apart. “Yeah, but the troubling part is the fact she’s ex-Jedi. She might know some of the most common tactics.”

“Let her use them. It won’t be the first time I crushed a Jedi fleet.” Ridley says.

Spike clears his throat. “Yeah…let’s not mention that around the other Jedi we are friends with.”

“War breeds strange bedmates.” Ridley says.

Spike chuckles once. “And you would know. You have one with your former enemy.”

“Master Yoda, are these my reinforcements?” Luminara asks switching back to the council.

“Strange they are, yes, even though.” Yoda said.

“This is not the force that was meant to reinforce your fleet master Luminara.” Windu says seeing the ships.

“Those are mandalorian ships. That one there is the Darkline, a new experimental one of their ships and the flagship of the mandalorian Blitzkrieg. It also has a working model of the lost weapon from the records of the old council, the Silencer.” Obi-wan says.

Luminara stares at them. “Why are they helping us? They could easily turn on us.”

Obi-wan holds up a hand. “We have a treaty in the works, but be careful how you treat them. They are not assimilated into the republic and may never be. They are a third party, but are friendly to us, so watch your words. Especially if you speak about old Jedi codes. They seem to be bitter about that.” He said, remembering Blitz’s talk with him and Anakin.

“Insight you have, hum?” Yoda asks.

“Yes, I met Blitzkrieg and was living at one of his homes on his home planet. The experience has given me a better understanding of the mandalorian warrior clans still out there.” Obi-wan says.

Luminara sighs. “And how do you expect me to talk to them when they finish up this fight? As you can see.” She said bringing up the fight and they see the CID ships being destroyed.

“All troops, prepare to launch. We are commencing our liberation of Pantora.” Blitz orders flying the Darkstar to the Darkline and docking.

“Hey Blitz, we got a communication request from the republic fleet.” Spike says.

“I will take it personally.” Blitz says turning back to normal before heading to the drop pod that contained his partner, Genosaurer.

Geno growls as he lowers his head to Blitz and growls softly.

“Ready for our invasion?” Blitz asks, touching his head before Geno opens his canopy and let’s Blitz into his cockpit.

Blitz sighs as he relaxes in his seat. “Okay, first the call.” He said answering the call. “You reached Blitzkrieg. Who is this?”

“This is jedi Master Luminara.” Luminara says.

“I know of you. I have read your file.” Blitz says.

Luminara studies him. “And I haven’t heard of you anywhere. What are you doing next?”

“Starting our invasion and maybe you know me by the name I go by since my days of being a fighter pilot, Southern Cross.” Blitz says.

Luminara goes a little wide eyed before Blitz smirks a bit and prepares to cut the line. “Excuse me. I have to be dropped in a pod. Begin landing your troops with us.” Blitz says cutting her off before he felt himself and Geno’s pod being shot to the planet below.

“We got a line of droids about to reach the capital with their defense force trying to hold them back. We are dropping you to the other side of them and you can put the squeeze on them. Fighters and bombers are being rearmed for the fight below. So they would be out for a while. Troop dropships from the republic are going in now.” Ridley explained.

“Roger, send the jets down with our landing forces to pick up the slack while they are rearmed. I will lead the second zoid unit and establish a line.” Blitz says.

Spike comes onto the screen. “They are already coming in. Just tell them where to go. We’ll keep watch of the skies and the status of most of the ships.”

“Have them secure air dominance in sectors four, six, and nine in preparations to send in our basilisk droids.” Blitz orders as his drop pod and the others come under fire and his takes a hit. “Lucky shot. Geno we are good from the altitude ejecting.” Blitz says blowing the top off his pod’s front and Geno jumps out using his boosters to slow his descent and soon his pod explodes underneath them, creating a smokescreen covering their descent.

Geno roars as they land and starts charging right out of the smokescreen. “Targets acquired, it’s a transport formation.” Blitz says before using the laser guns mounted on Geno’s back to start firing at the transport and their tank escorts.

The droids remain unfazed before they turn around and try to fire at him before the rest of the pods containing the zoids come in and land before the zoids burst through out of them and begin helping to fire at them. Blitz then turns his focus on the laser tower. “After finishing the tanks, concentrate all fire on that tower and help secure air dominance.” Blitz orders.

The zoids all run off after the towers as they keep firing at the tanks and just run over the walking droids. “Saber Tigers start hit and run maneuvers on the outlining defenses. Everyone else, form up on me after securing a beachhead.” Blitz orders starting to use the gun on Geno’s head to fire on battle droids and super battle droids emerging from the city line as the main gate starts to crumble.

The soldiers all shoot back responses as they all try to find a place for a landing zone before they all focus on one and soon cause massive explosions in their wake before leaving nothing there.

Blitz and the rest of the zoids maintained their position outside of the front gate with only one of the Iron Kongs to take a bad hit and being unable to move since. A few hours later, two divisions of mandalorian warriors assembled outside the front gate. “All units hear me.” Blitz says over a local channel, so even the local resistance inside the walls could hear him.

“Sir.” They said make sure to hold the droids back in case they decide to charge out.

“Before us was the occupied capital of Pantora. Within is the enemy’s commanding officer, a fallen jedi, a traitor of all she once held sacred. She oppresses free people who have done nothing to her. Her methods are cruel, dishonorable, and evil. So what say you my brothers? Will we let our hated enemy continue with her traitorous and evil ways? Or we show the galaxy what we Mandalorians stand for and free the proud Pantora from her evil? If you are with me, raise a shout and rattle the very walls with them!” Blitz yells.

Both Ridley and Spike chuckle as they hear the troops cheer and yell out. “He can sure rile a crowd.” Ridley said.

“Now my brethren.” Blitz pauses as Geno anchors himself to the spot and charges his particle gun. “CHARGE!” Blitz yells, firing the charge particle gun, destroying the gate, paving the way into the capital open wide.

The troops all shout as they charge their way inside and take down any droids that start to attack them from all places as Geno unanchors himself. “Well, that was fun.” He remarks before opening the canopy and turns into his humanoid form. “Geno, support the troops and attack any enemy reinforcements.” Blitz orders jumping out and activates his jetpack, flying straight into the fight.

Geno roars as he charges himself and fires at anything shooting at him. “We got the fighters and bombers outfitted. Tell them where to strike.” Spike calls Blitz.

“There is an army of droids coming to reinforce the fallen jedi. Scorched earth.” Blitz order simply starts to shoot with his dual blaster pistols and joins up with the mandalorians.

“Copy that sir. We are coming in.” A pilot said.

“Roger.” Blitz says.

The fighting was brutal as the droids fought them street by street, but the mandalorians were living up to their ancestor’s names and blasting them to pieces. Part way through the battle, to Blitz’s expectations, Pantorans were starting to rise up and aid them with whatever they had. “Alpha, Bravo, with me. We are going to join up with the elite guard here and retake their capital building where the enemy commander and officers are.” Blitz instructs.

“Sir.” The commanders said as they joined up with him as they moving around high and low.

“Charge.” Blitz yells leading the charge with the two squads of mandalorians and the elite guard following him into the hail of blaster fire from the defending droids as they exchange fire with them when a mandalorian rocket trooper destroyed the machine blaster emplacement with his rocket launcher, opening the way.

“Where’s the commander?” Blitz calls out.

“We are still getting a reading from where it has been the whole time. She’s probably waiting for you.” Spike answered.

“I will deal with the commander myself. Take over their communications and isolate the droids.” Blitz orders the Elite guard and the Mandalorians.

“Drop a satellite probe and go in. I’m sure they will give way to you.” Ridley said.

“No need. I will knock.” Blitz says, throwing several explosives onto the door and blowing it apart, kicking up smoke as he enters.

“Well that’s one way to make an entrance.” Both Spike and the commander said inside before Blitz cuts communications.

Blitz walks in with all the menace a sith would have with the Neimoidians manning the controls were either trying to recover from the explosion or moving back in fear. Blitz, seeing this, blasts the Neimoidians without batting an eye.

The commander frowns as she slowly walks to him. “You must be the commander of the fleet above. I hoped to fight you and take what you have.”

“Funny, because I intend to collect your head as a trophy.” Blitz says withdrawing one of his claws from his bracers.

The commander just huffs and takes out her lightsaber and lights it up. “Well, at least we got a non-boring fight.”

“More than you know.” Blitz says sheathing his blaster pistol before slashing at her with his claw.

She blocks it with her saber and starts trying to slash at him. “What can you hope to help the republic?”

“Oh, this isn’t about helping them. Your idiot fleet admiral attacked one of our worlds. Mandalorians don’t take that lying down and it being a newly recognized alliance world also means you attacked the neutral party.” Blitz says moving just outside of her range with each slash she attempted.

She growls silently. “Doesn’t matter. We are going to take over all of them.”

“How with your pathetic skills?” Blitz asks blocking her with his claw before firing his flamethrower, getting the side of her face with it.

She yells out as she covers her face and backs off. “Bastard!”

“What? I’m not a jedi like you were expecting.” Blitz charges forward with her blocking his claw with her saber, only to feel a stabbing pain in her right leg to see a second claw coming from his other gauntlet.

She growls in pain and starts punching him in the head as she tries to pull her leg back.

“Ow, that is the best hit you givin yet.” Blitz says sarcastically, making her charge in anger only for him to sheath his claws and catch the wrist of the hand holding the saber. He then applies pressure to it using the force to enhance his strength, making her drop the light saber and fall to her knees in pain. “You were pitiful, but…” Blitz pauses, using the force to bring his darksaber into his free hand to her shock. “You will be the force sith user I kill as a sith lord.” Blitz says before using the darksaber to decapitate her before she could say what she was about to say.

Blitz sighs as he turns off his darksaber and takes her lightsaber and picks up her head and walks outside to find the Pantorans cheering and Blitz looks up to see their flag flying proudly over the capitol building and smiles.

“Send a transport ship. Need a pickup for me and Geno.” He said over the comms.

“Copy that. We are already sending one for you and him. It’ll be there in a few minutes.” Spike said before cutting the line.

“Alpha commander, take charge with the Pantorans and secure the capital.” Blitz orders.

“Sir.” The Alpha commander said.

“All high speed zoids with me, the rest defend the capitol. We are off to the next front.” Blitz orders.

All the zoids called were then starting to follow him as he got back into Geno and they started to walk out of the city.

“This is Southern Cross, hailing Jedi master Luminara.” Blitz says hailing her after turning back to normal.

Luminara comes onto the screen. “This is master Luminara. What do you need?”

“The Capitol has been secured and the enemy commander is KIA.” Blitz says.

Luminara nods. “Good. We got surrounding forces trying to hold back what was supposed to be reinforcement. We need to take out most of them to regain control.”

“Me and an armored unit are heading to the next front, but also we took out the communications hub in the capitol and our fleet is jamming communications as well. The droids wouldn’t be as organized for a while.” Blitz informs.

Luminara nods. “This should be easier for us as well. My squads are reporting that the droids are being taken down easier.”

“I will leave that front to you then.” Blitz says.

Luminara held a straight face. “Good.” She said before cutting the line.

Spike suddenly comes on. “We got transport ships for you with more troops. They can follow you if you need to head somewhere.”

“Roger, we will start liberating nearby settlements and head eastwards to meet up with Master Luminara. This acceptable to you?” Blitz asks.

Spike nods. “Yeah, we still got the bombers and fighters waiting for more orders so go ahead and use them. I think they are itching for a fight.”

“Transfer them to sector 4 and 5, but have three squads of fighters assigned to the capitol if the droids start firebombing the settlements like Ryloth.” Blitz orders.

Spike looks away. “You got it. Now I bet our Geno friend is hungry so feed him.” He said, smirking a bit before cutting off.

“I will see the squads as soon as possible.” Blitz informs Luminara.

Luminara nods. “You better get going. The faster this is done. The better.”

Blitz cut the line.

“Master, are you sure we can trust him as he has a history of killing Jedi.” Barriss says as it had been a few days on the planetary time since Blitz had talked to Luminara.

Luminara sighs. “I don’t know, but I rather not anger the ones who have an overwhelming force that is too big than us and able to take down any one of us in a moment.”

“General, I see something approaching.” A clone says.

Luminara looks at him. “What is it?”

“I am unsure. I have never seen something like it.” The clone says handing her the macrobinoculars.

Luminara takes them and tries to spot where he is looking. “Can you at least tell me what description I’m looking for?”

“A giant metal bipedal reptile.” The clone says.

Luminara scoffs. “Now that’s just…oh…I see now.” She said, stopping.

“Master?” Barriss asks, confused.

Luminara gives her the macrobinoculars. “Giant reptile.”

Barriss looks through the macrobinoculars and sees a black and purple colored metal creature as the clone described and soon starts to see yellow colored giant metal felines.

“What the heck am I looking at?” Barriss asks carefully.

“I don’t know, I have never seen such things.” Luminara says before Barriss starts to see basilisk droids and Mandalorians.

Barriss gulps a bit. “Mandalorians. You think they would start to at least listen to an extent?”

“Come in Jedi master Luminara.” A voice said in open communication.

Luminara turns on her comms. “You have her. Who is this?”

“Southern Cross. We went into radio silence and took a southern path and looped around if the droids were sliced into our communications.” Blitz said.

Luminara sighs. “Well, we got a pocket of droids ahead of us. Then you can burst on through?”

“Exact coordinates?” Blitz asks.

“Three klicks north of our position.” Luminara says.

“Roger. Bomber, start a run and everyone else, start an artillery barrage.” Blitz order.

“Sir.” They all said as they move into formation.

Soon the droids’ position was razed and the mandalorians started entering the republic camp.

Luminara stares at them as she watches carefully. “Strange, they aren’t as ferocious as I read.”

“What do you mean master?” Barriss asks.

Luminara sighs. “I mean the fact I read about the most ferocious factions ever made and these were described as the toughest and deadliest around.”

“Could their teeth, if you pardon the expression, have dulled?” Barriss asks.

Explosions then happened that took out almost all the droids. “I sincerely doubt that.” Luminara said.

The zoids and basilisk droids set themselves down with the republic’s armor. “Shall we go and talk to the leader in person?” Barriss asks.

“I don’t think he is what you will expect.” Luminara says knowing that Barriss hadn’t read Obi-wan’s report on the species.

Barriss shrugs. “How bad could he be? I mean, we have seen much of most species. Strange and all. What could be bad about his?”

Lunamara and Barris go to where the zoids were and walk up to one of the Saber tiger pilots. “Excuse me, where is your commander?”

“He is piloting the Genosaurer over there.” The mandalorian replies.

They all look over to the menacingly looking robot before walking to it as they carefully approach it once it turns its head to them. “Commander? Are you in there?” Luminara calls out.

“One moment.” Blitz says over the speaker.

Luminara leans over to Barriss. “Remember, stay calm. We don’t want to anger our allies if you talk about a certain aspect of him.”

“Understood master.” Barriss says before the canopy on Grenosaurus’s head opened up and Blitz jumps out and lands in front of them.

Luminara sighs as she sees what Obi-wan was talking about. “I see what all the rumors were about.”

Blitz stretches as he looks at them. “Hello there. What’s the overall status?” Blitz asks. Barriss just looks down and stares at him. “What?” Blitz asks.

Barriss couldn’t help but smile a bit. “He’s…cute.”

“What?” Blitz asks, sweat dropping.

Barriss tilts her head as she studies him. “He’s…pretty cute for an intelligent species. This is…still cute.”

Blitz chuckles nervously as he looks to Luminara frowning. “Yeah, this happens from time to time. Just give her a moment.”

Barriss starts reaching to touch him when Luminara clears her throat and she pulls back blushing. “Sorry sir.” She quickly apologized.

Blitz waves her off. “No biggie. Had worse to try and pet me.”

“Now shall we talk about our current situation?” Luminara asks.

“Yes, let’s.” Blitz asks as they go to the command tent.

Luminara sighs as she brings up the many battlefields. “Well, thanks to your incursion, the planet is almost liberated. Now we just mop up the stragglers.”

Blitz hands her a lightsaber before saying anything.

Luminara stares at it. “I see you took the commander down.”

“Personally. Now only sectors ten and twelve remain contested, as such, I propose starting by an artillery barrage on sector ten will have our bombers attack sector twelve to give off the illusion we are stretched thin.” Blitz says.

Luminara nods. “The only thing is the terrain in both as the footing is troubling for most foot soldiers.”

“Get me a line to the Darkline Minerva.” Blitz says into his communicator.

“Granted.” She said before both Spike and Ridley come up.

“Need something?” Spike asks.

“I want you to send me two platoons worth of our jetpack soldiers.” Blitz says.

Ridley moves in closer. “Ten minutes and they are on the ground.”

“Understand, send transports to resupply us.” Blitz orders.

Spike pushes Ridley’s head away a bit. “That’s five.”

“Get it done and continue to hold defensive positions up there.” Blitz orders.

They both nod. “You got it.” Spike said before cutting the line.

“That will fix those problems.” Blitz says.

Luminara stares where they were. “Was that…a child?”

“Very long life spans, by most species standards he is an adult.” Blitz says.

Barrios looks carefully at him. “Are almost all species as cute on your planet?”

“With three different sub breeds for mine.” Blitz says.

Luminara clears her throat again. “Can we get back on track here?”

“What about your troops, they ready for one last push?” Blitz asks.

Luminara nods. “Yes, we’re ready to go.”

“After we are resupplied, we will commence our final push then.” Blitz says.

Luminara moves the map around. “And now we need to plan it out.”

“Yes.” Blitz says before they started planning with the officers of the clones and a few mandalorians. An hour after the supplies arrived, they finalized their attack plans.

Luminara sighs. “So are we in agreement?”

“Yes. For now, half of our mandalorian jetpack troops will be under your command along with most of our zoids while you strike sector twelve. While I take a platoon of clone troopers and the other half of the jetpack troopers to attack sector ten.” Blitz says.

Luminara nods. “Shall we get going?”

“Very well. Good hunting.” Blitz says before exiting with the mandalorians.

“I am surprised how easily he let you take command of his troops.” Barriss says.

Luminara nods. “Probably for good graces with this treaty.”

“Let’s hope we keep in their good graces.” Barriss says.

“You mean we haven’t heard from master Luminara since her reinforcements arrived?” Ahsoka asks Obi-wan.

Obi-wan nods. “Yes, either she’s very busy or worst case scenario time. Looks like we need a checkup.”

“Master Obi-wan, a transmission from Pantora is coming in.” A clone technical officer says.

“Understood. Shall we go see it?” Obi-wan asks Ahsoka and Anakin who nods.

The three make their way to the communication tower of the temple in time to hear. “This is master Luminara, we have finished off the last of the droids on Pantora.” Luminara says.

They all look surprised and walk up to the communication system. “Repeat, we have finished off the droids.” Luminara said.

“Excellent news master Luminara.” Windu says.

Luminara nods. “Yes, we have now taken control of this sector and are working on placing the defenses as of now.”

“Understood, is the leader of the third force available to speak?” Windu asks, surprising Anakin and Ahsoka.

“Unfortunately no, he is setting up defenses as we speak.” Luminara says.

Windu sighs. “Now I’m wondering who our third party is?”

“Mandalorians master Windu. They are led by Southern Cross.” Luminara says.

Windu gains a frown. “This might spell bad news later on. Be careful around him.”

“Say what you wish for master Windu, but the mandalorians aid here was invaluable. Without them, Pantora wouldn’t be liberated yet and Southern Cross slew one of Dooku’s dark acolytes.” Luminara says.

Windu watches her carefully. “Who did he get?”

“Our former knight, Marllil Grehog.” Luminara says.

Obi-wan, Anakin and Ahsoka looks to each other in slight shock.

“Understood, anything else?” Windu asks.

“Yes, he has informed me that when the republic sends relief forces, they will be leaving.” Luminara says.

Obi-wan sighs. “Sounds like him.”

“Understood, we will relocate forces to garrison Pantora.” Windu says.

Luminara nods. “Luminara out.” She said before cutting the line.

“Seems like our alliance with them is paying off already.” Obi-wan says.

Windu sighs. “But I worry about the future of it now. Who knows where it could go?”

“Sir, we are getting reports now of other worlds along the border that have either fallen to the alliance’s fleets or are under siege.” An officer says.

Windu frowns at him. “What planet hasn’t fallen?”

“Here is the report.” The officer says handing Windu a datapad.

The three Jedi were still standing off to the side. “Well…what’s the word?” Anakin asks.

“Only two planets haven’t fallen to the assaults and both the droids and the alliance are bogged down in a ground war.” Windu says.

They all look at each other. “So what’s the plan here?” Obi-wan asks.

“Should contact the alliance, we should, to coordinate.” Yoda says walking in.

“I have to agree. But we can only do so with those that trust us because of our pasts. Jedi and mandalorian sometimes don’t mix.” Ahsoka offered.

“Mostly yes. But we are fighting the same enemy here.” Anakin says.

“Who says?” Ahsoka asks.

“Didn’t your friend Blitz say so?” Obi-wan asks.

Ahsoka nods. “Yeah, he did. He also said something about war fogging who’s who.” Ahsoka says recalling that Blitz suspects someone high up is controlling both sides.

“That is a point.” Obi-wan says.

Anakin sighs. “Let’s just get the whichever one that is or about to be attacked. Maybe we can salvage that planet.”

“Anakin, the report means that the alliance is besieging Separatist control worlds.” Obi-wan says.

“And we are stuck here.” He quipped.

“Actually, we might be able to use this opportunity to press the lines and push the CIS back as they will have to relegate droids to protect or attempt to take back planets the alliance has taken.” Windu says.

Ahsoka shrugs. “Why don’t we go now? We have a great chance of getting some action if the alliance hasn’t taken them all down.”

“Because our fleet is being repaired, refueled, and resupplied.” Anakin reminds.

“We do have three fleet awaiting orders though.” Windu says.

“Send orders to one to move out, the rest, wait and watch, they must.” Yoda says.

Ahsoka sighs. “Shall we get this done?”

“Masters, to be able to devastate the droid blockade and armies of droids on Pantora. They must be using some weaponry we haven’t seen before besides the silencer. May I and my padawan go see this for ourselves?” Anakin asks.

Yoda nods. “Go now. Find a powerful weapon, we must.”

“Thank you masters. Come along Ahsoka.” Anakin says.

Ahsoka sighs as she follows him. “Might be weird asking him now.”

Blitz sighs as he continues watching the landscape. It had been nearly a week since the liberation of Pantora and now he and his forces were waiting for the republic to send forces to relieve them.

“Hey Blitz, how’s it going down there?” Spike calls over the comms.

“Bored.” Blitz says.

Spike chuckles. “Yeah, expected that. Want to talk to Twilight and the others?”

“Sure.” Blitz says righting himself.

Spike sighs. “Alright. Patching you through.” He said before cutting off and letting him on the ringing line.

“Come on, pick up.” Blitz mumbled after the fifth ring.

He heard a yawn as the line picked up. “Hello?” Twilight asks as he sees her turn on the lights.

“Hey sexy, did I wake you?” Blitz asks.

Twilight yawns again. “Sort of. What’s going on?”

“Just giving you a call.” Blitz says noticing Daring in the bed.

Twilight smiles as she looks over to Daring sleeping. “Yeah. We are kinda sad you left so we are using each other as substitutes. We will get used to it one day. Anyway, how are you?”

“Bored, all we are doing is waiting right now.” Blitz says.

Twilight smiles gently. “I hope I can help fix that boredom.”

“So do I. So how are the foals?” Blitz asks.

Twilight giggles a bit. “Sad you aren’t here, but they are hopeful after we told them what you did and when you could be back. Arcane wants to talk to you mostly.”

“He is such a good foal.” Blitz says letting Twilight see the scenery.

Twilight smiles as she looks around him. “Nice place. How is it looking over there?”

“This is Pantora, an inhabited moon.” Blitz says.

Twilight hums as she keeps looking. “Not bad. Still need to grow too.”

“So how are my girls doing?” Blitz asks.

Twilight shrugs. “Here and there. They are all just missing you at the moment. Still wish we had a good temporary replacement.” She said, smirking.

Blitz shakes his head. “I will come for a visit as soon as the republic sends troops to relieve us. Also check the intergalactic republic news.” Blitz says.

Twilight raises an eyebrow and tries searching. “What am I looking for?”

“You will know it when you read it.” Blitz says before Twilight comes across an article reading ‘Alliance comes to aid within an hour of the treaty being signed with them.’

Twilight smiles. “Well, you are sure living up to what others need right now. At least we can worry less about you.”

“I also slew my first fallen jedi of this war.” Blitz says.

Twilight raises an eyebrow. “That one was bad, right?” She asks slowly.

“She was the enemy Twi, so she was bad. Don’t worry.” Blitz says smiling at her.

Twilight sighs in relief. “Good. And Spike?”

“He is towing the line. I made it clear that if he slacks off with his three assistants, they get shipped back home.” Blitz says.

Twilight gets confused. “Assistants?”

“CMC.” Blitz says groaning.

Twilight frowns. “What?” She asks, getting mad.

“How they got employed, I do not know, but they are of legal age.” Blitz says facehoofing.

Twilight groans out loud. “And Slender?”

“I have no clue.” Blitz says.

Twilight huffs. “The girls are not going to like this.”

“Then please take it up with Spike, as I delegate employment to others most of the time as I have a lot of other things to do. Also the Pantorans are very interested in a trade agreement after we liberated their planet.” Blitz says.

Twilight tilts her head. “Trade huh? What do they get?”

“Credits and we have many untapped resources and goods. Especially food as the droids destroyed quite a few areas that produced that for them.” Blitz says.

Twilight hums. “I have to talk about a trade agreement with them. When can talking begin?”

“When you get up, if you choose.” Blitz says.

Twilight sighs and nods. “Good. Not a good look at the moment. Now then, what are you going to do?”

“What are you talking about? You look sexy as always.” Blitz says smiling.

Twilight giggles. “And you look handsome as ever.”

“Well I’ll let you get back to sleep and tell the rest I said hi, ok?” Blitz asks.

Twilight nods. “Take pictures.” She said before cutting the line.

“Aw, such a cute mare.” Blitz says leaning back against his seat. A few minutes later, his eyes were covered.

“Guess who?” A female voice asks.

“Ah, master Ahsoka.” Blitz says smiling.

Ahsoka chuckles and uncovers his eyes before going around and walks in front of him. “Yep. How are you doing here?” She asks, bending down to his size.

“Waiting and being boreddddddddddddddddddddd.” Blitz says holding the last part of bored for a bit.

Ahsoka shakes her head before taking a stance. “Now padawan Cross. What have I taught you?” She mocks.

“Patience is a virtue.” Blitz says mockingly.

Ahsoka chuckles. “And what are you going to do in the meantime?”

“I got nothing to do. I unintentionally preempted myself and either assigned or did what was to be done.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka shakes her head. “You meditate. Have you been meditating?” She playfully scolds.

“I’m wary of your fellow jedi.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka sighs as she loses her stance. “Who wouldn’t with your background? Are you at least getting along in some sense?”

“The master, on a professional level. The padawan, well she wants to pet me.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka grins. “You are pettable.”

“Yeah, not too keen on having them find out I am force sensitive and was trained by a sith holocron of a member of the old empire’s dark council.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka shakes her head. “You always look at the bad, don’t you?” She asks sitting nearby.

“So why are you here…wait, let me guess, your master wanted to see what equipment we brought.” Blitz guess.

Ahsoka claps a few times. “Yay for you. Want a prize?”

“What, your company isn’t my prize?” Blitz jokes.

Ahsoka chuckles a bit. “Yeah, they wanted to find out how you were able to take this planet very quickly. Care to explain?”

“Well, first we completely overwhelmed their fleet with our forces then started dropping forces at key locations and being unexpected, they didn’t have a proper response right away seeing as they had almost destroyed your fleet. We then attacked the capital right away and I killed the commander leaving them leaderless and my troops and the Pantorans, captured their communications while we jammed off world communications. That isolated them so they couldn’t coordinate while we did and stamped them out one by one.” Blitz explains.

Ahsoka raises an eyebrow at him. “So…basically…overwhelm them with huge numbers?”

“Unlike the droids, each soldier is higher quality and we brought rare weapons to bear like zoids.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka looks curiously at him. “Zoids? You have them?”

“Outside the republic and as such, the law the trade federation got passed on them doesn’t apply.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka raises an eyebrow. “You are really getting more interesting every time I talk to you.”

“Anakin won’t see them unless he goes to the fortress we have constructed nearby. So Barriss seems interested in our fighter jets. You think your master will be as well?” Blitz asks.

Ahsoka shrugs. “Maybe. He’s always been insisting to fly on his own discretion.”

“The republic will never go for jet fighters over starfighters.” Blitz says laying his head onto Ahsoka’s lap.

Ahsoka looks down to him. “True. But if they see an advantage, they would.”

“With how much it will cost to make them and starfighters?” Blitz asks.

Ahsoka smiles and starts petting his mane. “True. Now if they found a way to make it better. They might. Although, the war companies would make a big profit.”

“Yeah, but they would have to really sell it well because starfighters have versatility, while jet fighters are specialized for atmosphere usage.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka shrugs. “Might be good in some ways. We don’t actually control much in terms of space battles and usually just two ships crashing into each or firing at each and hoping one picks off the other.”

“So, missed me?” Blitz asks.

Ahsoka smiles. “Did you?”

“What do you think?” Blitz asks.

Ahsoka playfully frowns. “I say you didn’t care.”

“Oh so you do care what I think.” Blitz says smirking.

Ahsoka chuckles. “Yeah. You really changed my life.”

“Proposal accepted, when’s the wedding?” Blitz jokes.

Ahsoka slaps his forehead. “Blitz.”

“Ok, ok. I’ll cut the jokes for a bit.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka smiles as she shakes her head lightly. “You know, this is the closest we have ever gotten up to this point.”

“Really? Cause I remember having to share a bed the night before that stake out.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka smirks. “And you had that accident.”

“I can’t help if I had to run to the bathroom from food poisoning.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka chuckles as she keeps petting his mane. “When have we ever had a moment like this?”

“Very few that can be counted on your hand.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka nods as she relaxes. “I wish we can stay like this.”

“Yeah.” Blitz says happily before getting up. “So I have to say, for a fallen jedi knight, I expected more. It felt bad killing her. She put up that bad of a fight for me.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka sighs. “In your case, I don’t doubt it. At least it’s over.”

“Is it Ahsoka or has the war only started for the alliance and me.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka looks at him carefully before sighing and looking away. “Didn’t you have a saying for war in general?”

“Maybe, but now I am in it beside you.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka smiles. “Wouldn’t have it any other way.”

“So what about your fleet and the 501st?” Blitz asks.

Ahsoka sighs. “Well, they are still being on the high list in terms of how tough and what victories we had.”

“I meant their readiness. I sincerely doubt the republic would send one of their best offensive armies to garrison Pantora.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka sighs. “After Anakin saw the force you had. He asked the republic to see if we can join up with our own fleet and deal with a few planets and sectors we have on our list.”

“I see, so the republic will like to try and combine our two forces huh? That will bring the combined fleet to fifteen ships.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka smirks. “But it doesn’t matter the amount as long as you have skill and strength.”

“Well it does help that most are destroyer class and my flagship has the silencer.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka stares at him. “Looks like there’s no point in hiding it.”

“Not really, as your master and he most likely told your jedi council already.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka nods. “You think there might be an attack on your ship one day?”

“More like they will try and seize it to uncover the silencer’s blueprints. Unfortunately, the one in the ship’s database is a fake and it will destroy any ship that has that design, for it will not be able to handle the strain and blow up taking the ship with it.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka smiles. “Smart stallion.”

“You know it.” Blitz says walking over. “So want to train a bit?” Blitz asks.

Ahsoka nods. “Yes, let’s. Now where did we leave off?”

“Meditation.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka nods. “Okay, let’s start.” She said getting comfortable.

Blitz joins her as they start meditating, but to Ahsoka’s surprise she could feel his connection to the force stronger than ever.

“What happened to you?” Ahsoka asks.

“Got captured by a cult because my wives were too trusting with them and they somehow blocked my magic and stuffed me into a one room house with nothing to do, but meditate.” Blitz said.

Ahsoka looks back at him. “And you got stronger?”

“More like really established my connection to it.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka looks him over carefully. “Cult? You have cults too?”

“Yeah, will tell you about it in great detail later.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka shakes her head. “You need to reevaluate your life.”

“Why? You’re not wearing a wedding ring yet.” Blitz jokes.

Ahsoka smiles. “Blitz. You need to check your jokes more. Who knows who could be listening in on this conversation?”

“Alright, alright, now to meditation.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka nods as she tries to meditate again.

“So these are what the Mandalorians used to achieve complete air superiority.” Captain Rex says as he Anakin, and Barriss looks at the fighter jets.

Anakin hums as he looks them over. “Looks good enough, but these things are looking like they run on another type of fuel than a reactor core.”

“You’re correct, they run on an older model of engine that is an upgraded version of a pre spacefaring era engine.” A mandalorian technician says.

They all look at him. “And how does it fare against our engines?” Barriss asks.

“Well in an atmosphere like this, it isn’t a contest. They can fly circles around a starfighter, but the drawback is they can’t be used in space.” The tech says.

Rex hums. “And what do you use for space combat?”

“We have starfighters, but we prefer to use the specialized fighter jets over them on a planet. They are maybe old fashioned, some may even call them relics, but look at the results in the hands of a good pilot and you will see while we still use them.” The tech says.

They all stare at him before they hear a yawn and look over to see Blitz walk over with Ahsoka trailing behind him. “Hi guys. Like the fighter’s?” Blitz asks, stretching his neck.

Barriss just stares at him, making Blitz sigh before putting his helmet back on so she could focus a bit better.

Ahsoka shakes her head a bit. “Get your head into the game here. We are still on the clock.” She said walking over to them.

“I can just imagine how the rest of the galaxy will treat my species.” Blitz says facehoofing onto the helmet.

Ahsoka sighs. “Let’s just hope they can listen long enough and get used to it.”

“Anyways, Ahsoka here tells me you have sent a request to combine the 501 and the four mandalorian clans under my commander into a collision army.” Blitz says.

Anakin nods. “That’s the idea. We can take down many sectors in need quicker and easier.”

“If Mandalore agrees to this request with the alliance I will do it. Also, there was a second reason for this operation that has captured several key bordering sectors.” Blitz says.

Rex watches him carefully. “And you know?”

“I do. Many mandalorian clans are in hiding or on the fence when Mandalore called them to war against the CIS. With this, we have demonstrated our power and…” Blitz stops to let them finish.

“To get them off of the fence and come out of hiding to join you.” Ahsoka says remembering similar situations in history before most, if not all, mandalorian clans assemble to fight together.

“Correct.” Blitz says.

Anakin sighs. “And you hope to gain more at this point?”

“They will come. I know of one clan that will jump at the chance to hurt Dooku’s armies even though I personally dislike them.” Blitz says.

Rex raises an eyebrow. “Who?”

“Death watch.” Blitz says.

They all frown at that. “I think you said they weren’t real Mandalorians.” Anakin said.

“Now the mandalorians are savage and sadistic at times, but still mandalorians. The pretenders are the gutless pacifists who hold our home world.” Blitz says.

They just look confused. “You made pretenders to protect the home world but you sent the real guys out into space?” Ahsoka asks.

“No, a lot of the clans have been nomadic for centuries either hunting or looking for work with no wars to fight. This recent new government style is an insult to most clans. They turned their backs on their culture and heritage. They have forgotten the heroes who sacrificed everything for their people. In many ways, most clans hate them more than they dislike death watch because of their methods.” Blitz informs.

Ahsoka grimaces a bit. “You must really have hatred. I thought your kind was love and kindness?”

“I’m a mandalorian. We don’t care what you are. It is who you are that matters to us.” Blitz says as Anakin notices some mandalorians lounging around, playing darts and on the board is a picture of the duchess currently ruling Mandalore.

“You have a lot of spare time.” Anakin remarks as he still watches the group.

“No, we are currently just waiting impatiently on the ground here. Those are some of the pilots who are waiting to either be shipped off to the next battle or to be ordered to sortie.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka shakes her head a bit. “They won’t help with the supplies, will they?”

“Supplies here are loaded and ready to transport.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka looks around. “Is there anything to do?”

“Pretty much, not we have already done it and are just waiting. We didn’t expect the republic to take so long to send relief troops.” Blitz says.

Rex groans as he rubs his head. “Yeah, they are slow on that part sometimes.”

“At least the Pantorans are friendly to us.” Blitz says.

Ahsoka smirks a bit. “And you hope to make a trade with them.”

“Their senator has already been in contact asking who they can talk to get it to happen.” Blitz informs.

Ahsoka smirks even more. “You got a connection already, don’t you?”

“Not yet, but I have set someone up for her to talk to.” Blitz informs.

“Her?” Ahsoka asks, grinning. “You got Twilight, didn’t you?”

Blitz sighs. “She is the diplomat for the planet. Princess of magic by the way!” He calls to the sky to everyone’s confusion. “So any word on relief troops?” Blitz asks.

Anakin looks at his datapad. “About two days so we are still stuck here. You got anything that needs to be done?”

“With that knowledge, I can start doing something.” Blitz says contacting Spike.

Spike looks up from the datapad he was looking at as the screen came on. “Do you need something?”

“I have just been informed that the relief will arrive in forty-eight hours. You know what I expect to be done by then.” Blitz says.

Spike quickly throws the datapad behind him. “You got it.” He said quickly, going to the controls.

Blitz cuts communications before starting to yell to the mandalorians to get ready to leave.

Ahsoka smiles a bit. “That young dragon is still like a kid.”

“Snips, don’t you think you should inform Master Luminara and Barriss here about something regarding Blitzkrieg?” Anakin asks.

Ahsoka sighs. “Yeah. You and Rex can head off. Who knows if the troops need to be replaced from the leaving Mandalorians.”

“What does he mean Ahsoka?” Barriss asks after Anakin and Rex left.

“Well…Blitz is force sensitive like us, but he only recently discovered it like a few months ago recently.” Ahsoka explains.

Barriss grows confused. “Isn’t he too old?”

“Yeah, his species sub breed has an ability that is kind of like the force making him being force sensitive go unnoticed because it was always attributed to that.” Ahsoka explains.

“And being only recently discovered by the entire galaxy species didn’t help the jedi find him as a child, huh?” Barriss comments.

“You’ve read up on them from master Obi-wan’s report.” Ahsoka says.

Barriss nods. “Yes, this is a new civilization and should read up on how they are.”

“Good, so which did you like best amongst the sub-breeds?” Ahsoka asks.

Barriss hums. “I like the one that flies.”

“Pegasus sub breed and why, because they are the smallest?” Ahsoka kids with her.

Barriss gives her an annoyed look. “No, because of freedom to fly.”

“Ah. So how do you think Master Luminara will take this?” Ahsoka asks.

Barriss shrugs. “Maybe read up a bit.”

“I meant him being force sensitive.” Ahsoka says.

Barriss smiles a bit. “Oh, that. She would probably ask why he isn’t with the council.”

“We best go inform her.” Ahsoka says.